Jeffrey B. Linn has over 30 years of experience in education, including roles as a principal, director of staff development, associate professor, and chair of educational administration. He holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from Penn State University and has taught at multiple universities. His professional experiences include administrative leadership, teaching, coaching, and conducting professional development workshops on topics such as differentiated instruction, data analysis, and assessment.

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Jeffrey B. Linn
100 Newcastle Road Home: (585) 288-6245
Rochester, NY 14610 Office: (585) 395-5804
jlinn@brockport.edu
PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION
Ph.D. Penn State University, University Park, PA, 1989
Major: Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in Reading, Communication, and
Language Arts, and Supervision.
Dissertation Title: “The Development of a Valid Scale to Measure Attitudes towards
Writing.”
M. Ed. Millersville University, Millersville, PA, 1983
Major: Elementary Education with Reading Specialist Certification
B.S. Ed. Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA, 1976
Major: Elementary Education with a minor in History
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES, SUPERVISION, ADMINISTRATION, AND HIGHER EDUCATION
• Associate Professor and Chair of Educational Administration, College at Brockport, State
University of New York. 2012 to present
• Primary School Principal, Canandaigua City School District: responsible for leadership of a
Pre-kindergarten through Second Grade building with 200 personnel and 913 students. 2008 to
2012
• Director of Staff Development, Canandaigua City School District: responsible for all aspects of
Staff Development in a 4,300-student district and 6,300-student consortium for the Wayne Finger
Lakes BOCES. 2003 to 2008
• Staff Development Specialist/Coordinator, Wayne Finger Lakes BOCES: headed three district
Staff Development Consortium. 2000 to 2003
• Adjunct Professor, University of Rochester: Human Resources Management, 2007-2008
• Adjunct Professor, Nazareth College and Empire State College: Differentiating Instruction &
Foundations of Curriculum courses, 2001-2012
• Associate Professor of Education, SUNY College at Brockport: taught and coordinated
courses in Methods of Reading and Language Arts, Models of Teaching, Multicultural
Perspectives in Education, Dimensions/Applications of Teaching Social Studies through
Language Art, Content Area Reading, and Foundations of Curriculum. Director of School
#17/Brockport Practice School Partnership. 1989-2000
• Director—Elementary Methods Block, Penn State University College of Education: taught and
coordinated courses in Methods of Elementary Reading and Language Arts and Reading for
Special Needs Children. Supervised practicum and student teachers. 1985-1989

2. • Director—Center for Academic Development and Head of Reading Center Tutoring
Services, Millersville University: trained, budgeted, and coordinated tutors and tutoring
programs. 1983
• Supervisor—Reading Clinic, Millersville University: responsible for supervising graduate
students completing their clinical work with schoolchildren. 1983-1985
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES, TEACHING
• Reading/Learning Specialist grades 6-9 and 9th
grade English teacher—Cornwall-Lebanon Middle and
High Schools, Lebanon, PA—1983-1985.
• Sixth grade classroom teacher—Eastern Lebanon School District, Myerstown, PA—1982-1983
• District Tutor-Homebound Reading Tutor and Substitute Teacher —Lebanon School District,
Lebanon, PA—1981-1982
• Elementary Reading Teacher-grades 3-6—Lebanon School District—1977-1980
CERTIFICATIONS
• School Administration & Supervision (SAS) Certificate (NY)—6/02
• School District Administrator (SDA) Certification (NY)—6/02
• Elementary Provisional (NY)—9/01
• Reading Supervisor (PA)—8/85
• Reading Specialist (PA)—10/83
• Elementary Instructional I (PA)—10/76
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, SEMINARS AND PAPERS
• “Discovering a Shared Vision for Teacher Leadership.” Learning Forward National Conference,
Nashville, Tenn. December, 9, 2014
• “Developing Critical Thinking in Online and Hybrid Courses.” SUNY institutional Technology
Conference, Cornell University, May 28, 2014
• “A Road Map for Integrating Formative Data into School Culture”. ASCD Conference, Los
Angeles, CA, March, 2014
• “Asking Effective Questions to Ensure Critical Thinking in Class or On-Line”. Center for
Excellence in Learning and Teaching Day, College at Brockport, 2013
• “Pushing the Envelope on Grading Practices: Moving the System Along,” NY State Staff
Development Conference, Rochester, NY 2007
• “Literacy Across the Curriculum: Ideas that Work,” New York State Staff Development Council
Conference, Rochester, NY 2006
• “Investigating Teacher Attitudes About Grading,” Assessment Training Institute Conference:
Assessment For Learning, Canandaigua, NY 2005
• “Best Practices in Grading: A Reflection Dialogue,” Assessment Training Institute Conference:
Assessment For Learning, Canandaigua, NY 2005
• “Positive Behavior Strategies.” Nazareth College Institute on Inclusive Schooling Conference,
Rochester, NY 2002
• “A Consortium Design for Staff Development.” Four County School Boards Association, Geneva,
NY 2001
• “Metacognition and Self Knowledge in Ourselves and Our Students.” Eleventh International
Conference on College Teaching and Learning, Jacksonville, Florida. 2000
• “Sustaining School University Partnerships: Strategies for Renewal and Growth.” Association of
Teacher Educators National Conference, Chicago, IL. 1999
• “Matching Teaching Practices and Beliefs with the New York State Standards: A Model for
Change.” New York State Council of Social Studies Convention, Rochester, New York. 1998
• “Add Variety to your Teaching: Role Play”. Ninth International Conference on College Teaching
and Learning, Jacksonville, FL. 1998
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3. • “School/University Partnerships: Impact on Teaching and Learning.” Voices from the Field:
Impact of School Partnerships Conference, Flagstaff, AZ. 1998
• “Creating Connections to Urban Education." New York State Association of Teacher Education.
Syracuse, NY. 1996
• “Preparing and Retaining Successful Minority Teachers: Eight Years of Lessons Learned.” American
Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Chicago, IL. 1996
• “Developing Vocabulary with Students: Research and Practice.” International Reading Association
Conference. Anaheim, CA. 1995
• “Urban Teacher Preparation: Redesigning Programs to meet State Needs”. The New York State
Association of Colleges for Teacher Education Albany, NY. 1995
• “Faculty Recognition, Financing, and Staffing Professional Development Schools: Promises and
Problems.” American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Washington, D.C. 1995
• “Working Together: Implementing a Collaborative Teacher Education Program.” Association of
Teacher Educators Conference. Detroit, MI. 1995
• “Challenging Students to Think About Diversity: Two Models of Teaching.” National Association
for Multicultural Education Conference. Detroit, MI. 1994
• “Content Area Reading, Writing, and Thinking for the Elementary Grades, Strategies that Work,”
International Reading Association Conference. Toronto, Canada. 1994
• “Stages of Development for Professional Practice Schools: Six Models,” New York State
Association of Teacher Educators. Syracuse, NY. 1993
• “Brockport's TOC Program.” National Association for Multicultural Education Conference. Los
Angeles, CA. 1993
• “Moving Towards Multicultural Reality. The Change Process in a Multicultural Environment.” Enhancing
the Quality of Teaching in Colleges and Universities. Charlestown, SC. 1993
• “Creating a Quality Pool of Minority Teacher Education Candidates,” Association of Teacher
Educators Conference. Los Angeles, CA. 1993
• “Push in, Pull Out - Program Congruence for Students with Special Needs.” Rochester Area Reading
Council. 1992
• “Getting Students to Think About Social Issues,” “NYS Council for the Social Studies”. Albany, NY. 1992
• “Whole Language in the Social Studies,” NYS Council for the Social Studies. Buffalo, NY. 1990
• “Bibliotherapy as it Applies to Multiculturalism,” SUNY Brockport Scholars Day Conference.
Brockport, NY. 1990
• “The Development of a Valid Scale to Measure Writing Attitudes,” Pennsylvania Educational
Research Association Conference. Philadelphia, PA. 1989
• “Facilitating Reflection in Preservice and In-service Teachers: Payoffs and Pitfalls,” Presentation and
Panel Discussion at Association of Teacher Educators Conference. St. Louis, MO. 1989
• “Writing and the Young Child,” Pennsylvania Rural Kindergarten Developmental Program
Conference, Seven Springs Resort. Seven Springs, PA. 1987
• “Supervising Student Teachers: A Reflective Approach” - paper presented at American Education
Research Association. Washington, D.C. 1987
• “Teaching Vocabulary as Concept Development,” Keystone State Reading Association. Philadelphia,
PA. 1986
• “Newspapers and the Classroom,” Pennsylvania Association of School Librarians Conference.
Lancaster, PA. 1984
• “Developing Critical Thinking: A Language Experience Approach,” Millersville University Reading
Conference. Millersville, PA. 1984
• “Training Tutors to Integrate Reading with Content,” Keystone State Reading Conference. State
College, PA. 1983
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• Served on SUNY Teacher and Leader Educational Network (S-Ten) and planning committee (C-
Ten). Wrote, taped and produced video on data conferences. 2012-2014
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4. • Have coached 15 principals and other administrators in five different school districts in a formal
coaching program aligned with The University of Rochester. 2011-present
• Trained teams of Instructional coaches in the Geneva and Medina City School Districts. 2013 and
2014
• Designed multiple day workshops in New Teacher Training, ELA Data Analysis, Differentiated
Instruction, Peer Coaching, Co-Teaching/Co-Planning, Grading, Assessment, Content Area Reading
and Writing and others for Staff Development Consortium and Canandaigua City School District.
• Chair of district /community committees: Professional Development Committee, Grading, Homework, and
Gender Equity
• Certified 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Trainer and 4 Roles of Leadership Trainer.
• Director, New York State Universal Pre-Kindergarten Program (UPK), Canandaigua City School District.
• Chair SUNY Brockport, Faculty Senate Planning Committee, “What Students Will We Teach?”
• Chair, Department of Education and Human Development. Summer 1998.
• Director, School #17 Rochester/Brockport Practice School Partnership Program. 1992-2000
• Associate Director - Teacher Opportunity Corp (TOC) for Underrepresented Minorities in Education.
1990-2000
• Delivered over 90 in-service presentations/workshops to school districts and community
organizations on topics as varied as writing, comprehension, vocabulary development, content area
reading and writing, teaching for diversity, methods of teaching critical thinking, models of teaching,
differentiating instruction, co-teaching/co-planning and grading and assessment.
• Co-chair SUNY Brockport Excellence in Teaching Committee.
• Member SUNY Brockport Campus Wide Committees: Assessment, Budget, Scholarship, Portfolios,
Redefining Scholarship, Admissions Policies, and Faculty Senate.
• Developed and taught faculty development course on teaching portfolios for higher education.
• Member of SUNY Brockport Departmental Committees: Elementary Curriculum, External Review,
Internal Review, Assessment, Graduate Policies, Elementary and Reading Teacher Education
Restructuring Committees.
• Three-time chair of Department of Education and Human Development Personnel Committee.
Funded Grant
• SUNY Instructional Innovation Technology Grant (IITG) 2013-2014
• Universal Pre-kindergarten Grant, 2000-2006
• Positive Behavioral Strategies Project Grant, 2001-2003
• Scholarly Incentive Award Grant, 1998
• Upward Bound Grant, 1995
• Teacher Opportunity Corp for Underrepresented Minorities in Education Grant, 1991–2000
• Reading First Grant 2006-2009
PUBLICATIONS/WRITING
• “Using a Hybrid Instructional Model to Develop Critical thinking in a Course on the Principal
ship.” In Critical Thinking for College Learners, Lynae Warren ed., Emerson Brockway
Publishing. www.emersonbrockway.com, pp31-56.
• “Professional Learning in Focus: Engaging Critical Thinking and Metacognition to Empower
Learning,” in Journal of Staff Development, Heather Donnelly and Jeff Linn, April 2014
• “Can We Talk About Schools,” essay in Rochester’s Democrat and Chronicle Newspaper, March 27,
2013
• “State Test Scores: More Shell Games,” City Newspaper, Rochester, NY, Vol. 39 No. 49, August
18. 2010
• “The School’s Problem? Concentrated Poverty,” City Newspaper, Rochester, NY, Vol. 34 No. 27,
March 30. 2005
• “Vouchers hack underpinnings of private and public schools,” essay in Rochester’s Democrat
and Chronicle Newspaper, July 2. 1999
• “School University Partnerships: Impact on Teaching and Learning” in Voices from the Field -
published proceedings from conference. Flagstaff, Arizona. (Co-author) 1998
• “Teacher Education Portfolios: Point-Counterpoint” in Journal of New York State Association
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5. of Colleges for Teacher Education, vol. 14, spring, 1998. (Co-author) 1998
• “Change that Grade,” essay in Rochester’s Democrat and Chronicle Newspaper, November 7, 1996
• “The SUNY Brockport Elementary Education Programs: Field Experiences, Cadre Groups,
Team Teaching, and It's Good for You Too” in Journal of New York State Association of
Colleges for Teacher Education. Vol. 12, spring, 1996. (Co-author) 1996
• Book Review, “Frederick Douglass,” in Multicultural Education; summer, Vol. 1, No. 4. 1994
• “Multicultural Education for Students and Teachers.” Rochester's Democrat and Chronicle
Newspaper supplement. October 17 and 18. 1993
• Movie Review, “Dances with Wolves” in Multicultural Education Premiere Issue, summer. Vol.
1, No. 2. 1993
• “Teaching Values is Tricky Business,” essay in Rochester's Democrat and Chronicle newspaper,
• “Assignments to Promote Reflection in Reading Education,” in College Reading Association
Monograph on Reading Education. 1992
• “Whole Language in the Social Studies,” in Social Science Record, Vol. 27, No. 2. 1991
• Book Review, “With the Boys” in Play and Culture, Vol. 1, No. 2, May 1988.
• “A Goal Referenced Approach to Teaching Reading,” in Penn State University, Monograph of
Teacher Education 1988
• “Training Tutors to Work with Students.” Videotape Series © 1984, Jeffrey Linn and Millersville
University 1984
PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC MEMBERSHIPS
• Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
• International Reading Association
• Phi Delta Kappa
REFERENCES
• Available upon request.
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6. of Colleges for Teacher Education, vol. 14, spring, 1998. (Co-author) 1998
• “Change that Grade,” essay in Rochester’s Democrat and Chronicle Newspaper, November 7, 1996
• “The SUNY Brockport Elementary Education Programs: Field Experiences, Cadre Groups,
Team Teaching, and It's Good for You Too” in Journal of New York State Association of
Colleges for Teacher Education. Vol. 12, spring, 1996. (Co-author) 1996
• Book Review, “Frederick Douglass,” in Multicultural Education; summer, Vol. 1, No. 4. 1994
• “Multicultural Education for Students and Teachers.” Rochester's Democrat and Chronicle
Newspaper supplement. October 17 and 18. 1993
• Movie Review, “Dances with Wolves” in Multicultural Education Premiere Issue, summer. Vol.
1, No. 2. 1993
• “Teaching Values is Tricky Business,” essay in Rochester's Democrat and Chronicle newspaper,
• “Assignments to Promote Reflection in Reading Education,” in College Reading Association
Monograph on Reading Education. 1992
• “Whole Language in the Social Studies,” in Social Science Record, Vol. 27, No. 2. 1991
• Book Review, “With the Boys” in Play and Culture, Vol. 1, No. 2, May 1988.
• “A Goal Referenced Approach to Teaching Reading,” in Penn State University, Monograph of
Teacher Education 1988
• “Training Tutors to Work with Students.” Videotape Series © 1984, Jeffrey Linn and Millersville
University 1984
PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC MEMBERSHIPS
• Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
• International Reading Association
• Phi Delta Kappa
REFERENCES
• Available upon request.
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